FORT GREENE, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 A 16-year-old is accused of fatally shooting his stepdad in a Brooklyn NYCHA apartment during a fight over smoking weed near the teen\u2019s pregnant mother, police said.<\/p>\n
The boy was arrested Tuesday for allegedly killing 43-year-old Jamel Davis<\/a> inside the Walt Whitman Houses\u00a0at 75 Cumberland Walk in Fort Greene just before 11 a.m. on April 12, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n Get ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage <\/a><\/p>\n The teen and his 3-month-pregnant mom were arguing about him smoking weed before Davis intervened, according to NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny.<\/p>\n The fight quickly escalated, and the boy went to his room and got his gun out of a shoebox before shooting the stepdad in the chest and arm, Kenny said.<\/p>\n Davis was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved.<\/p>\n The teen fled and was picked up Tuesday in the Bronx, police said. It was unclear if he had the gun.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had a backpack with all his belongings in it, and he looked very disheveled, like he\u2019s been living out on the street,\u201d Kenny said at a Tuesday press briefing.<\/p>\n The boy was charged with murder and criminal possession of a loaded firearm, police said. The teen has prior arrests for domestic incidents with his mother.<\/p>\n \u201cJust a family dispute over smoking weed, in front of his pregnant mother,\u201d Kenny said.<\/p>\n Mira Wassef is an award-winning reporter who has covered news and sports in the NYC area for more than a decade. She joined the PIX11 News digital team in 2022. See more of her work here.<\/a> <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n